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Newegg and Customer Fooled - Fake CPU
Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 3:52 pm
by Major_A
I saw this over at HardOCP and this definitely is not the kind of attention that the Egg would like.
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2010/03/ ... intel_cpus
Re: Newegg and Customer Fooled - Fake CPU
Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 5:32 pm
by Geezy
aww poor guy the RMA wait must be horrible, kinda feel sorry for him
Re: Newegg and Customer Fooled - Fake CPU
Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 6:28 pm
by bmaverick
Does he have to give the fake processor back? Did he run any benchmarks on it? That would be a curious thing to know.
Is there another posting of the performace of the fake?
Re: Newegg and Customer Fooled - Fake CPU
Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 10:39 pm
by hark
The fake processor is not even a processor, it's just a hunk of metal. In the video description he says that he put it in his motherboard and it damaged it.
Re: Newegg and Customer Fooled - Fake CPU
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 2:02 pm
by Major_A
Why, why, why did he even put it in his motherboard?
Re: Newegg and Customer Fooled - Fake CPU
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 3:55 pm
by hark
He should have inspected it whether or not it was fake, but apparently he trusted Newegg too much to do so. Either that or he wants an excuse to get a free motherboard.
Re: Newegg and Customer Fooled - Fake CPU
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 4:01 pm
by skier
hark wrote:he wants an excuse to get a free motherboard.
ding ding ding we have a winner!
Re: Newegg and Customer Fooled - Fake CPU
Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 10:03 am
by Major_A
Re: Newegg and Customer Fooled - Fake CPU
Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 12:37 pm
by Sovereign
This has been done so many times, yet I still laugh...
Re: Newegg and Customer Fooled - Fake CPU
Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 1:48 pm
by Major_A
Hence the Newegg Edition. Any idea what movie that scene is in? At this point I'm curious what is said in the real movie.
Re: Newegg and Customer Fooled - Fake CPU
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 4:39 pm
by trucz
i'd say the funniest part of the fake cpu was that the fan was a sticker.